OVERLANDERS GET A JOLT As she went over, Emma Dean's feet hit the under side of the table.

Her plate of venison slid off to the floor, and Hippy Wingate's coffee landed in his lap.

The Overlanders sprang to their feet, but Joe Shafto sat glaring from one to the other of them in amazement.
"A bear! A bear! A bear under the table," screamed Emma and sank back in a dead faint.
It was then that the Overland Riders saw what had so frightened her, for a black bear ambled out from under the table and began gulping down the venison from Emma's overturned plate.

To the eyes of the girls he appeared to be a huge animal, and his growls, as he swallowed choice morsels of venison, were far from reassuring.
"Don't be skeert! It's only Henry," cried the forest woman.

"Set down!" No one heeded her advice.